Aircraft Ownership
Enstrom lands 46 orders, delivers two trainers to Peru
Enstrom Helicopter Corp. of Menominee, Mich., is seeing its fortunes make a turnaround.
In December 2009, the Royal Thai Army ordered 16 Enstrom 480Bs—single-engine helicopters that Thailand will use as trainers. Deliveries are set for 2010 and 2011. Then Japan ordered 30 more 480Bs for the same purpose. Furthermore, Enstrom President Jerry Mullins said that the Peruvian Army will take delivery of two F28F trainers in the first quarter of 2010.
That’s quite a change from the five helicopters the company delivered in 2009.
Enstrom manufactures the $995,900 480B, which is powered by a single, 420-shp Rolls Royce 250-C20W engine; the $422,000 piston-powered 280FX Shark, which is powered by a turbocharged 225-hp Lycoming HIO-360 engine; and the similarly priced F28F, which also has the same Lycoming HIO-360.
February 22, 2010
